The Echoing Green

Question 1

how many stanzas are in the echoing green

Answer 1

three

Question 2

how many lines in each stanza

Answer 2

10

Question 3

what are the stanzas composed of

Answer 3

5 rhyming couplets

Question 4

first stanza

Answer 4

focuses on the children playing in the morning

Question 5

second stanza

Answer 5

the older people recalling their own youthful pleasures and is possibly set in the afternoon

Question 6

third stanza

Answer 6

takes place at evening, as the weary children begin their tired journey home

Question 7

innocence or experience

Answer 7

innocence

Question 8

what does the poem celebrate

Answer 8

spring

Question 9

Ecchoing

Answer 9

the happy scene like the season of spring itself, has played out before and will play out again and again in the future.

Question 10

does time move quickly or slowly in the poem

Answer 10

quickly

Question 11

why does time move quickly

Answer 11

because time flies when your having fun XD

Question 12

what is different about stanza two

Answer 12

its darker

• fading flowers
• possibility of ending
• eventually death

Question 13

the pleasure in stanza two is

Answer 13

more mature

Question 14

stanza two is meant to be

Answer 14

inspiring

Question 15

the oak tree

Answer 15

a symbol of strength and security

Question 16

what affects the last stanza

Answer 16

melancholy

Question 17

what does echoing change to in stanza 3

Answer 17

darkening

Question 18

what does darkening suggest

Answer 18

that things come to and end